Oral History of Dorian Kimball, whose grandfather was George Strout, builder of many homes in Sebastopol. Strout owned the Analy Planing Mill, which he sold in 1915 to Bridgeford and became the Bridgeford Planing Mill. During the depression her father, Kimball, lost all money so went to work for the Corp of Engineers, working under the WPA as a surveyor for bridge construction.
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California Revealed.